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  • From: Anatoly Volynets <av AT total-knowledge.com>
  • To: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson AT RealMeasures.dyndns.org>
  • Cc: tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>, Open Studios <Open_Studios AT yahoogroups.com>, Community Studios <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Community_studios] Supercomputers for the People
  • Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:46:28 -0700 (PDT)

A rep of Total Knowledge was there. The entire event was fun, but made it
obvious that such a gathering, which is aimed to solve a real problem,
requires tremendous software development effort and thus relies on
proprietary organization, either social, or regular one.
-Anatoly

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Seth Johnson wrote:
:
: It will also make the ubiquity of computing more evident.
:
: Seth
:
: tom poe wrote:
: >
: > Soon, you will be able to burn CDs that contain all the software,the OS,
: > everything needed to solve a particular scenario that concerns your
: > local community, especially in the sciences. That will also include
: > economic impact studies affecting local and regional economies. This is
: > huge! And, we thought Open Studios had vision! :)
: > Tom
: >
: > http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/
: >
: > "Today, supercomputing is controlled largely by governmental
: > organizations, academic research institutions, animation studios, and
: > recently biotech companies. This means that the problems that get solved
: > by supercomputers are narrow in scope and tightly controlled. We want to
: > change that."
: >
: > "We think that a group of folks should be able to get together and study
: > whatever they want, and they should be able to use a supercomputer to
: > help them. So if a high school science class wanted to study the ozone
: > hole using a supercomputer model, they could create a FlashMob
: > supercomputer in a few hours and start running their model today. If a
: > group of neighbors were worried about how a local gas station's
: > underground gas tank might leak into the drinking water if the tank ever
: > cracked, they could use Flash Mob Computing to model the scenario. In
: > short, we hope Flash Mob Computing will democratize supercomputing. That
: > is to say, it will make supercomputing accessible to everyone. To us,
: > that's a very exciting idea."
: >

Anatoly Volynets
http://www.total-knowledge.com
http://www.culturedialogue.org




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